Cuff-button.



Patented July 2, I90L.

No. 677,63l. G. BBEDA.

CUFF BUTTON. (Applicatinn. filed Jan. 19., 1901..)

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GOTTLIEB BREDA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-BUTTON.

SEECIFIGATLON forming part of LetterS Patent NO. 677,631, dated July 2, 1901.

Application filed January 19, 1901. Serial No. 43,864. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LGOTTLIEBBREDA, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a cuff-button of novel construction which may be readily inserted and removed and which will be securely held to the cuff after being inserted.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side view, partly in section, of my improved cud-button, showing it open. Fig. 2 is a sectional end view of the same with one of the head-sections removed; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the button closed. Fig. 4 is a top view of the button, and Fig. 5 a side view of a modification.

The shank a of the button is extended laterally at its base and there provided with two hooks 0,, arranged at opposite sides of the shank and converging from the bottom toward their free ends at the top. To the upper end of the shank a are hinged at b the two sections of a divided head b, which extend over opposite sides of the shank and which when swung down may be locked to the hooks a by means of suitable notches or catches a", provided on the latter.

In use the books a are each passed through one of the buttonholes of a cuff A, and then the head sections Z) are swung down and locked to thehooks, Fig. 3, so that in this way the entire button is locked to the cuff. It will be seen that my cuff-button can be secured to the cuff without passing one of the head-sections through the buttonholes, as is generally the case with the double-headed cuffbuttons. Thus the insertion and removal of the button is greatly facilitated, while the desirable action of a double-headed button in holding the cuff edge to edge is retained.

Fig. 5 illustrates a simplified embodiment of my invention. Here the divided head Z) is replaced by an integral pivoted head 0, which projects over both sides of the shank and which may be swung aside asthe hooks are passed through the buttonholes. The means for locking the head to the hooks are dispensed with in this modification.

What I claim is- A cuif-button provided with a shank, a pivoted head extending over both sides thereof, and a pair of hooks that converge toward the head, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York city, county and State of New York, this 18th day of J anuary, 1901.

GOTTLIEB BREDA.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM SOHULZ, F. v. BRIESEN. 

